Darcus Howe

Darcus Howe is a writer and broadcaster. Howe organised the 20,000 strong Black People's March in 1981 claiming official neglect and inefficient policing of the investigation of the New Cross fire in which 13 black teenagers died.

White Heat, Paula Milne's 1960s-set drama has premiered on BBC2. But does it offer anything more than a stylised, nostalgic image of the decade? Fay Weldon, Roger McGough, Darcus Howe, Yvonne Roberts, Katharine Whitehorn and Emma Soames look back to their experiences of the era

So a new report claims white people will be Britain's ethnic minority in a few years time. Don't panic, says Darcus Howe, the prejudice of the old colonials is dead and we are all, black, white and Asian, more at ease with each other than any time in the past 50 years.